Apolinario Mabini and I share the same birth date, July 23.

He was the country’s first Minister of Foreign Affairs. But unlike him, I held no official government position -- but in my best capacities as an ordinary citizen, practiced diplomacy and promoted the country’s best interests when abroad.

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